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Early Modern Literary Studies is delighted to announce its September issue, a special issue on the theme of Gold containing a number of papers from the Northern Renaissance Seminar conference on Gold held at Sheffield Hallam University in November 2001, and a special contribution from Richard Abrams on the highly topical question of the 'Elegy for William Peter'. The full list of articles appears below, and the issue also contains the usual complement of reviews and theatre reviews. As usual, the journal can be accessed free online at <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html> Articles on Gold: "Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama. [1]Julie Sanders, Keele University. Orlando and the Golden World: The Old World and the New in As You Like It. [2] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. "In his gold I shine": Jacobean Comedy and the art of the mediating trickster.[3] Alizon Brunning, University of Central Lancashire. "O unquenchable thirst of gold": Lyly's Midas and the English quest for Empire. [4] Annaliese Connolly, Sheffield Hallam University. "The City Cannot Hold You": Social Conversion in the Goldsmith's Shop. [5] Janelle Day Jenstad, University of Windsor. "W. S.'s Elegy for William Peter": A Special Contribution: Meet the Peters. [6] Richard Abrams, University of Southern Maine. Sheffield Hallam University English department is also pleased to announce the launch of Volume 4 of its inhouse journal Working Papers on the Web. The theme of this issue is teaching Renaissance texts, both the centrally canonical and the lesser-known. Three of the essays, by Michael Best, Scott Howard, and Matt Hansen, focus on the period's most famous author, Shakespeare, but all describe unusual methods of encouraging students to engage with him. Carrie Hintz looks at an equally major figure, Milton, and discusses strategies for teaching Paradise Lost to religiously committed students. Other essays stray further from the beaten track: Ty Buckman focuses on the literary culture of 1590s London; Roze Hentschell considers ways of introducing non-canonical literature into undergraduate teaching; and Rowland Wymer describes how a course centred on the use of films such as La Reine Margot can be used to introduce students to the study of the Renaissance. The journal can be accessed free online at <http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/> Dr Lisa Hopkins Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html> Teaching and research pages: <http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm>